“… but for the way video games and in-home electronic communication and
entertainment may compliment isolation….”

This sentence caught my attention. Although English is not my first
language the use of compliment did
not sound right. I consulted the
dictionary and, yes, it should have been complement.
This made me read the article by Sean Penn with more attention and, frankly, as
a good friend says: “the man should stick to acting”.

Penn wrote in this article about Venezuelan politics, saying:“Therefore,
it is also a valuable and revealing sidebar to note that our president [Obama]
in the same week, contemplating the future of a Venezuela, whose own
democratically elected president and representative of the Venezuelan heart,
lays with his life at risk to cancer, that President Obama also, I submit,
tactlessly declared the Chavez administration as one of
"authoritarianism."

Again, Penn should stick to acting. Not only the writing is pretty chaotic
but we, Venezuelans, know very well that the definition of Chavez’s regime as
authoritarian is actually generous. It has been much closer to dictatorial. For
almost 15 years now the country has had only one power: the Executive power.
The Judicial, Legislative and Moral Powers, (the last includes the Comptroller
General, the Ombudsman and the Attorney General) as well as the National
Electoral Council and the Armed Force have simply been echoes of the
presidential ukases.

Penn also plays at being political
scientist and, even, moral philosopher, and here once more, he should stick to
acting. He says: “The conflicted
principle is that which all too often defines and limits our pride as Americans
who, in deference to an omnipresent filter of mono-culturalism, isolationism
and division, are consistently prone toward behaviors and words, as insensitive
and disrespectful, while at foremost counterproductive for the generations of
young Americans who will follow us. With it we lose perspective regarding the
context and people of other countries or other philosophies, and our moral
obligation to the human rights of all. When our actions are reckless, or
expressions are aimed at attacking any governmental ideology that is not our
own, and where our knowledge as citizens is dictated by biased and inflammatory
media, or by leaders whose own political lives or agendas are subject to the
consensus misinformation, those actions may most significantly undermine our
credibility with the people of other countries, and not with their systems of
government. Human happiness is proving itself reliant on global quality of joy,
and not the domain of borders”.

Is something missing in these long paragraphs?Grammatical coherence is one. Focus and facts
are also clear casualties.Penn
criticizes Obama for attacking a government [Chavez’s] simply because it has a different ideology. I would think that
criticism of totalitarian, corrupt, regimes were justified, even expected,
actions for a president of the United States. What would really undermine the
credibility of the United States would be Obama’s silence, his not criticizing
those regimes where human rights are continuously violated and where a
presidential language of hatred has divided the country into two distrustful
halves.

Penn is a member of a small group of Hollywood figures that support totalitarian
regimes such as Castro’s in Cuba and Chavez’s in Venezuela. The group also includes
Danny Glover and Oliver Stone. Some have derived financial benefits from their loyalty.
Glover obtained some $18 million to do a
film that remains to be seen. Stone made a very complimentary (this time the
word is correct) documentary of Chavez. Mark Weisbrot, a Chavez’s eulogist based in
Washington, obtained some $ 200,000 by writing the narrative.

Sean Penn's dad was a Hollywood commie who was persecuted during the McCarthy era so he thinks he has to avenge his dad. Like most of the Hollywood hypocrites, he's just an arrogant, rich, elitist who wouldn't last 5 minutes in North Korea or Cuba before crying to go home.

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